REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I9II 83 



The American plant is commonly paler than the European and 

 was described under the name C 1 i t o c y b e maculosa Pk. 

 Its stem is sometimes hollow but its essential characters are so close 

 to those of C. gilva (Pers.) Fr. that it seemed best to unite 

 them. Agaric us (Clitocybe) subzonalis Pk. also 

 is now considered a mere form of this species having the pileus 

 obscurely zonate. 



Clitocybe splendens (Pers.) Fr. 



SHINING CLITOCYBE 

 Sylloge V, p. 1 72 

 Pileus fleshy but thin, nearly plane becoming centrally depressed 

 and infundibuliform, glabrous, pale yellowish or yellow and shin- 

 ing, flesh white; lamellae narrow, simple, close, very decurrent. 

 white; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, glabrous, solid, 

 colored like the pileus ; spores subglobose, 4-5 /x in diameter. 

 Pileus 5-8 cm broad; stem 4-5 cm long, 8-10 mm thick. 

 Solitary. Woods among fallen leaves. Essex co. June. Rare. 



Clitocybe inversa Scop. 



INVERTED CLITOCYBE 

 Sylloge Y, p. \~2 



Pileus fleshy, convex becoming infundibuliform, fragile, glabrous, 

 obtuse, moist when fresh, involute on the thin margin, brick color, 

 reddish or tan color, flesh colored like the pileus; lamellae close, 

 simple, decurrent, pallid becoming reddish; stem equal or nearly so, 

 slightly rigid, spongy, stuffed or hollow, glabrous, whitish ; spores 

 subglobose, 3-5 \x. in diameter. 



Pileus 4-6 cm broad; stem 4-5 cm long, 4-8 mm thick. 



Gregarious or cespitose. Woods or open places. Fulton co. 

 August. Rare. 



SERIES B 

 Plant truly hygrophanous 



Cyathiformes 



Pileus hygrophanous, centrally depressed or cup shape, flesh thin, 

 separable into two horizontal layers; lamellae adnate or decurrent. 



The species of this section are separated from those of the pre- 

 ceding sections by the hygrophanous character of the pileus with its 



